Below you can view the photos from Class 2’s Christmas Party that they attended along with Class 1.
Do you like their creative and colourful outfits?
The Blog of Cathedral Primary School's Class 2
Below you can view the photos from Class 2’s Christmas Party that they attended along with Class 1.
Do you like their creative and colourful outfits?
Take a look through these photos to see some of the fantastic jumpers that Class 2 wore on Christmas Jumper Day 2015.
Learn how to spell these words:
Words with an oi spelling that make an oy sound
Foil
Soil
Coins
Point
Boiler
Words with an oy spelling that make an oy sound
Boy
Enjoy
Annoy
Destroy
Royal
Words with an ee spelling that make an e sound
Teeth
Agree
Meet
Words with an ea spelling that make an e sound
Dream
Repeat
Stream
Meat
Treat
Words with an ie spelling that make an e sound
Chief
Shield
Words with a y spelling that make an e sound
Funny
Crunchy
Words with an ey spelling that make an e sound
Donkey
Trolley
Words with a silent k
Know
Knife
Known
Knowledge (this is an extension word)
Words with a silent b
Climb
Thumb
Climbing
Words with a silent w
Wrist
Write
Wrote
Wrapper
Wrinkle] (this is an extension word)
Words with a wh spelling that make a w sound
Whale
Which
When
Whilst
Where
Plural words with an ies ending
Cherry
Cherries
Berry
Berries
Worry
Worries
Words with a th spelling that make a f sound
Think
Thirsty (this is an extension word)
Thought (this is an extension word)
Once you’ve practised spelling these words, write sentences containing each word. To extend yourself try to hit your Writing target in each sentence.
Everyone has worked so hard on the weekly Arithmetic Challenges and all that hard work was rewarded with some excellent results on the recent tests. To further improve your arithmetic skills, work through these tasks over the holidays:
Task 1 – Halving and dividing by 2
Task – calculate half of all the even numbers from 2 up to 30.
Count in 2s, starting at 0 and stopping at 30. Write down all the numbers you counted.
Write your answers in these three different ways:
1) Half of 20 is 10;
2) 1/2 of 20 = 10; and
3) 20 / 2 = 10.
Task 2 – Subtracting by counting on
Task – calculate the difference between any two 2-digit numbers by counting on from the smallest number to the biggest number.
Choose any 2-digit number then choose another 2-digit number that is smaller than it.
Start at the smaller number and count on until you reach the bigger number.
Write your answer as a number sentence, e.g. 53 – 38 = 15
Task 3 – Calculating one third of numbers
Task – calculate one third of numbers up to 30.
Count in 3s, starting at 0 and stopping at 30. Write down all the numbers you counted.
Write your answers in these three different ways:
1) One third of 30 is 10;
2) 1/3 of 30 = 10; and
3) 30 / 3 = 10.
Task 4 – Solving subtraction problems
Task – use adding knowledge to solve subtraction problems
Add together two 1-digit numbers.
Then turn the addition fact into a subtraction problem, e.g. 8 + 9 = 17 so 17 – 8 = 9 and 17 – 9 = 8.
Ask a partner to write subtraction problem for you and solve it by using your addition skills, e.g. – 7 = 6, I know the answer is 13 because 6 + 7 = 13 so
13 – 7 = 6.
The children in Class 2 have been observing the properties of materials in detail by using magnifying glasses to investigate whether common materials were shiny or dull, flexible or rigid and rough or smooth.
They have also been investigating different properties of everyday materials by identifying whether common materials could be squashed, bent, twisted or stretched.
Weekly Spellings – est suffix
Below are the spellings for this week’s Spelling Test in Class 2. The theme for this week’s spellings is ‘using the est suffix’.
There are 10 pairs of words to learn (the root word plus the word with the est suffix), also there is an extension challenge to learn an additional 5 pairs of words.
Root word ends in a consonant so add est
Root word ends in an e so add st
Root word ends in an y so change the y to an i and add est
Root word has a short vowel sound so double the consonant and add est
Extension Challenge – mix of spelling rules for the est suffix
Additional writing challenge – write these words in a sentence that also contains contracted words (e.g. can’t, I’m, she’ll, won’t)
That huge slice of Christmas Cake was the thickest piece of cake I’ve ever eaten!
Halving and dividing by 2 (Halving and dividing by 2 give the same answer)
Below is an outline of how to develop halving and dividing by 2 skills:
Extension Challenge
The tests will be on Friday 11th December.